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Well, WDevs seems to have finally fallen off the internet taking my blog with it. I'm in the process of rescuing it from the Google Cache. You can find my new blog here:http://blog.colinmackay.net/Default.aspx[^]

I have read your Profile and i saw that you are always Select every year for MVP 1st of Jan. So that means the MVP's for 2009 will selected next year Jan? I have been a Memeber of CodeProject for a Year and 4 months and have grown because of Code Project and people like you and Dave have made me what am today. So far how can you tell if i can be one of the people who will be seleted for MVP. you know i have written Articles and i have been involved at the Forum, Helping and getting helped, atleast Google gave me two pages when you search for "Vuyiswa Maseko",

What do you think about my ProFile?

And What can i improve?

Thanks

Vuyiswa Maseko,

Sorrow is Better than Laughter, it may Sadden your Face, but It sharpens your Understanding

So far how can you tell if i can be one of the people who will be seleted for MVP

I can't. Each year the formula seems to have been tweaked somewhat. It means that I cannot predict what the final outcome is. However, certain things have remained consistent. Chris is looking for people who contribute positively by writing articles and/or helping people in the forums.

Vuyiswa Maseko wrote:

What do you think about my ProFile?

You are trying to be helpful, but there are areas for improvement. Your articles tackled architecture which is an area where you can have two experts disagree on the action to take. It is a very difficult subject area. You might try looking at writing about something simpler, or doing more research first.

Vuyiswa Maseko wrote:

And What can i improve?

Read lots and spread the love! Seriously, read blogs, read books, attend user group events, keep learning. And to aid your comprehension tell others about it. The act of telling others helps solidify in your mind how something works, and others get stuff out of it too. Blog about the smaller things.

It is the first day of 2006 and I'm resurrecting part of an old signature. The two quotes I currently have in my signature here at CodeProject represent quite important ideals to me

"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucius

This represents the ideal that hard work pays dividends. One cannot expect to sit back and have everything fall in to their lap. If you want something you have to work at that.

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell

This represents the ideal that education is a life long activity. It never stops. Just because you left school or university doesn't mean your days in education are over. I spend hundreds of pounds each year on books. I spend lots of time reading articles on websites such as this. While I am driving I listen to podcasts such as DotNetRocks[^] and IT Conversations[^] and I attend events such as those hosted by Agile Scotland[^] and Scottish Developers[^]. In fact, I am now a core member of Scottish Developers so this year I will be organising some of these events.

ColinMackay.net
"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucius
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell

Just because you left school or university doesn't mean your days in education are over

Totally agree with that. Though I haven't dropped out of university, I have the feeling it doesn't teach me what is needed for me in order to pursue my dreams.
Totally agree with what Confucius said I'm really waiting for you website to be up and running because I Know it would be something worth reading.

regards,
MirceaMany people spend their life going to sleep when they’re not sleepy and waking up while they still are.

I'm really waiting for you website to be up and running because I Know it would be something worth reading

Well, hopefully it shouldn't be too long. I'm going to be installing the latest build of DotNetNuke[^]soon and putting something together. I got DNN 4.0.0, the first version availble for .NET 2.0, when it was first released - However it had many bugs. I had the feeling that they rushed that release so that it would come out at the same time as .NET 2.0 itself. Now that version 4.0.2 is out I feel more comfortable about using it.

ColinMackay.net
"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucius
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell

I didn't find your replies very pleasant and have quit this forum because of it.

Gee Jeremey - It was never my intention to be unkind. You made a post[^], I stated my opinion and tried to help you along. I empathised with you because I've been in a similar situation. I am sympathetic to what you are going through right now. Perhaps you're being a little impulsive here (perhaps not, I don't know).

Anyway, I wish you well in your hunt for new work. Good luck with the future.

SqlDataSource.CancelSelectOnNullParameter is a curious feature of ASP.NET 2.0 that could be useful, but this evening I just found frustrating.

The default state of this parameter on the SqlDataSource control is true which means I spent about an hour and a half trying to figure out why my SqlDataSource.Selecting event was firing, but the SqlDataSource.Selected event wasn't and why my Repeater control wasn't getting populated.

Personally, I think the default state of the CancelSelectOnNullParameter should be false because that way, if there is a null parameter an exception is thrown and the developer has a clue as to what is happening. Whereas when it is set to true nothing happens and people will spend time banging heads off desks* in frustration trying to figure out what is going wrong.

However, that said, ASP.NET 2.0 will rock your socks off!! I'm learning all the new controls and so far I've saved somewhere in the region of 80 hours of development time over doing the same job in ASP.NET 1.1. And that's with me doing the job on the learing curve at the same time!

Okay, so I was 30 last week. I completely pigged out as I went out to restaurants with my family (Thursday - Spanish Tapas), people from work (Friday - Oriental) and my friends (Saturday - Hard Rock Café).

My weight is unfortunately back up to 91kg.

So, this week, I am going to do two sessions each day at the gym. A morning session on the machines and a lunch time session to go swimming.

Well, I stepped on the scales this morning and the reading said 90.3kg just as it did last week. I would have been more disappointed by this, but I've had a nagging feeling the last few days that my scales are not working properly. Normally, during the week, my weight fluctuates, but for the purposes of this I am only taking the readings first thing on a Monday morning. However this past week my scales have said 90.3kg every time I stepped on them.

So when I was at the gym this morning I decided to use their scales. They are the old fashioned kind with a dial that spins around so I cannot see from the display a reading to the nearest 100g. So what did these scales display.... 87kg! Wow!

So, now I am on the look out for another set of scales so I can confirm which are right.

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell